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Spectral weight in Chern-Simons theory with symmetry breaking

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-01-08 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

We calculate the low-energy spectral weight of a holographic superfluid coupled to a Chern-Simons term in IR radial scaling geometries characterized by a parameter η\eta. This work was motivated by previous results where an unexpected low-energy spectral weight and a region of instability were seen, both at finite momentum, for the holographic superfluid. We characterize the effect of varying the Chern-Simons coupling α\alpha and condensate charge parameter ζ\zeta on these regions supporting low-energy spectral weight or a finite momentum instability. We show that η\eta, α\alpha and ζ\zeta each plays a unique role in shaping these regions. We find a surface αcrit(η,ζ)\alpha_{\text{crit}}(\eta, \zeta) above which the theory is unstable. In the longitudinal channel we extend our analysis to general dimension dd. We briefly analyze the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory and find that Fermi shells exist for d>4d>4.

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@article{arxiv.1905.07417,
  title  = {Spectral weight in Chern-Simons theory with symmetry breaking},
  author = {Victoria Martin and Nikhil Monga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.07417},
  year   = {2020}
}

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24 pages, 22 figures